Data Source

Data Source

These figures utilize data from the Climate Change in the American Mind (CCAM) project. Led by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason Center for Climate Change Communication, CCAM consists of national survey data on climate change beliefs collected between 2008 and 2018 (excluding 2009) and includes over 20,000 data points.

Raleigh Goodwin created the plots on this page using the ggplot package.

Citations:

Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC) & George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication (Mason 4C). (2020). Climate Change in the American Mind: National survey data on public opinion (2008-2018) [Data file and codebook]. doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/JW79P

Ballew, M. T., Leiserowitz, A., Roser-Renouf, C., Rosenthal, S. A., Kotcher, J. E., Marlon, J. R., Lyon, E., Goldberg, M. H., & Maibach, E. W. (2019). Climate Change in the American Mind: Data, tools, and trends. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 61(3), 4-18. doi: 10.1080/00139157.2019.1589300

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Planning to fix the x axis text to accurately display the years. R has been giving me a lot of grief about this, and none of the fixes I’ve tried have worked.

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I’d like to model this plot similarly to the common Pew bar plot format, wherein the bars are stacked and all centered at the divide between support/oppose instead of being left aligned at zero. Plot also feels a bit busy/crowded right now.

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I’d like to put the legend at the bottom of the plot and fix the dimensions so that the x axis labels don’t overlap. I’m also working on a related plot to this for an academic audience.